Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diplomats in Communist China, like Consul General Angus Ward-are apt to find themselves whipping posts and not listening posts. How can businessmen or missionaries have any security there? ¶As Mao's visit to Moscow indicates, he has shown no sign of wavering from the international Communist line. If he does set out to become a Tito, recognition can just as well wait until that happy day. ¶To recognize Mao would be to abandon America's friends in China-not only the Nationalist government, but all anti-Communist elements...
When he left for Independence, Mo. and Christmas at home, the President had not indicated which side he took. If he should ask Congress for higher taxes, he was apt to get a flat turndown. The President was about ready to give in to congressional appeals for a reduction of wartime excise taxes, would probably agree to removal of federal taxes on such items as transportation, fur coats and jewelry.* But in return he would insist that Congress make up the loss by raising taxes elsewhere-say on corporations, which, as every Congressman knows, have no vote...
...rubber-faced Dancer Weidman proved himself just about the master mime and top funny man of modern dance. ¶Sophie Maslow's Festival, an excerpt from an unfinished work called The Village I Knew, based on the folk tales of great Yiddish Storyteller Sholem Aleichem. With an apt little score by Samuel Matlowsky to help, Choreographer Maslow caught all the gay sentimental charm of Aleichem's folk-dancing village, and the Dudley-Maslow-Bales trio and the New Dance Group danced it with flashing style and color...